Workshops in
Rome, September 5-8,
2000
on the theme of
Metaphysics for the Third Millennium
Conference on Metaphysics for the Third Millennium web page.
For further information, please contact William Sweet
The World Union will be participating in workshops on the three principal
themes indicated below.
As well, it will be organizing special workshops on the following
topics:
Principal themes of the Conference
Metaphysics
and Culture
• Conceptions of the world and the search for meaning • The metaphysical interpretation of history. Neglect of personal being • Culture and metaphysical language. Hermeneutic and semiotic problems • Cultural reasons for indifference towards metaphysics |
Metaphysics
and Science
• The insufficiency of experimental models and methods • Metaphysical knowledge and scientific knowledge. The person as the foundation and measure of reality • Criticism, speculation, and life • The psychology and sociology of metaphysics • Can there be transcendental semiotics and hermeneutics? • Experience and metaphysical knowledge. The absolute and the relational constitution of the human person |
Metaphysics
and Religion
• Transcendental knowledge.Intelligence and revelation • The ontology of the religious sphere. Phenomenology and religion • Ethics and religion. Themetaphysical basis for new proposals in ethics • Is there a specifically
• Is a metaphysics whichintegrates the domains of rational and revealed knowledge possible? • Metaphysics and religiousexperience. The ontologicaland mystical status of the human person |
For further information, please contact:
Professor William Sweet
St Francis Xavier University
Antigonish, Nova Scotia B2G 2W5
CANADA
telephone: (1-902-867-2341) fax: (1-902-867-2448)
wsweet@stfx.ca